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Job overview
Are you a Principal Psychologist who is interested in leading and shaping clinical practise within a multi-disciplinary service to better support young people experiencing adversity? Do you want to help create new and innovative ways of working psychologically?
If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen for you to join the Youth Mental Health Team, as the Clinical Lead. This team has adopted the Thrive model of service delivery to be able to offer training, consultation and support in assessment and intervention to professionals working with young people requiring mental health support across Norfolk and Waveney.
The team hold a small specialist assessment and intervention caseload and have close links with other members of the Family and Young Person (CFYP) Mental Health Team.
Main duties of the job
Recently secured funding has meant a growth in the workforce capacity and an expansion of the service offer. This is an exciting and dynamic time for an individual to join the existing leadership structure, working closely alongside the Youth Team to ensure continued service evaluation and development, best practise and robust clinical governance.
The advertised post holder will have clinical oversight of the service offer, taking a lead on service development with regards to clinical need. The post holder will offer clinical supervision to the 8a Principal Psychologist and will hold a small individual caseload as appropriate. The service has close links with the University of East Anglia and offers a specialist placement for Trainee Clinical Psychologists on the Doctorate programme. We would like you to possess well developed specialist clinical, supervision and leadership skills, with particular depth of knowledge and experience in young person’s mental health and working successfully with families experiencing complex psychosocial difficulties.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Ensure the systematic provision of high quality clinical psychology service input to clients of the relevant service.
Supervise and support the psychological assessment, formulations and therapy provided by other psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively complex, highly technical and clinically highly sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Desirable
- High level knowledge in the assessment and evaluation of psychological therapies
Knowledge
Essential
- Well developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities etc.)
Desirable
- Providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
Experience
Essential
- Specialist complex psychological assessment and treatment of people with a wide range of mental health problems, of varying severity and complexity
Desirable
- Representing psychology within MDT setting(clinical and organisational contexts).
Qualifications
Essential
- Post graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or it's equivalent, including eligibility for chartered status with the BPS
- Registration with the HCPC (Health Care Professions Council) as a practitioner psychologist
Desirable
- Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
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This advert is for Principal Psychologist with Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust in Norwich, East of England, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Psychologist role. The advertised salary is £66,582 - £77,368 gross per annum pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 27 Jul 2026.
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